Get started with Analytics

Read a zone's traffic and security events, then turn on Real User Monitoring to measure Core Web Vitals from real visits.

Before you begin

A zone with proxied names that receive traffic through the edge. See DNS.
Any role can read analytics. Turning on Real User Monitoring needs the tech or admin role.

Open the traffic counters. In the zone, go to Analytics › Traffic. The top cards show requests, blocked requests, bandwidth out and DNS queries for the chosen Period (last 7, 30 or 90 days), with a chart per day.
Look at the security events. Scroll down to Security events: what the firewall blocked, challenged or logged, with filters and a Live mode. See Security events.
Turn on Real User Monitoring. Go to Analytics › Real performance, choose a Sample rate and select Enable.
```
openwaf-cloud ctl zones set example.com rum.enabled=true --reason "measure web vitals"
```
Visit your site. Open a few pages in a browser and close the tab. Data appears about a minute after a visitor leaves a page or switches tab.
Read the report. Analytics › Real performance shows the Core Web Vitals assessment, one tile per metric and diagnostics. See Core Web Vitals.
```
openwaf-cloud ctl rum report example.com --since 24h
```